Thursday, November 9, 2017

Blackstone and Ivanhoé Cambridge today announced plans to implement the largest private multi-family residential rooftop solar project in the United States. The project will be run by StuyTown Property Services (SPS), the property management company of Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village.

This 3.8 Megawatt (DC) solar energy system will span across the property’s 22 acres of rooftops. Once completed, StuyTown will have tripled Manhattan’s capacity to generate solar power. NYC-based renewable energy developer Onyx Renewable Partners is project developer for the installation, which is expected to begin this winter and reach completion in 2019.

The installation will consist of 9,671 high efficiency solar panels and will generate enough energy to power over 1,000 New York City apartments annually. The project is expected to offset approximately 63,000 tons of carbon dioxide emissions, comparable to removing 12,000 cars from the road for a year.

StuyTown is the first multifamily building in NYC to have received an ENERGY STAR certification, which it has won three years in a row for its sophisticated energy management technologies ... The community has been particularly active and enthusiastic in supporting StuyTown’s compost waste pickup, averaging just over 10,000 pounds of organic material collected weekly – representing 17 percent of all residential compost waste collected in Manhattan. StuyTown has already reduced on-site greenhouse gas emissions by 10 percent since 2007, and has now expanded into the solar sphere as part of its larger commitment to environmental sustainability.

StuyTown is the largest rental apartment complex in the U.S., with 11,200-plus multifamily units in 56 buildings across 80 acres in Manhattan’s East Village. It houses more than 27,000 New Yorkers and represents 1.7 percent of Manhattan’s population.

Why isnt't our newly elected Mayor leading the way -- he has thousands of CHP properties, and instead all he is doing is stringing lights and police towers around and inside them and being very fuel inefficient and wasteful. (I thought: wouldnt it be nicer if there were lights in the basketball courts and soccer fields adjacent to the buildings instead.) Not to mention: Havent heard back yet-- and it's been quite a while -- on hurricane prevention -- er, mitigation either -- except for a paltry project on Avenue C and 13 Street.

I guess if I were a mega campaign contributor I'd get his personal phone number. But fat chance: we're just slubs -- and some clueless slubs who voted for him -- from the Lower East.

"The project is expected to offset approximately 63,000 tons of carbon dioxide emissions, comparable to removing 12,000 cars from the road for a year."

Why not remove the 12,000 cars, too? Congestion pricing anyone? It would have a side benefit to the EV of getting rid of the travelers from the boroughs and NJ who come here on the weekends to party. But our recently re-elected Mayor Bill is against anything that doesn't fit into his progressive plot, sorry, plan... oops vision for NYC. What I'm trying to say is that it would offend his financial backers. Good.

I live in Stuytown. We always get shit on in comments sections. But in this case, we have the high ground. Solar is clean renewable energy in case you forgot. A lot more than your ratty ass apartment building is doing to help the earth, most likely!

@12:15....No fan of cars myself....but with NYC's hyper gentrification forcing people out further and further, congestion pricing does impact on lower income people. And at the same time little impact on affluent in Manhattan. So the low-wage janitor and cleaning workers who carpool from a Yonkers are hurt but no penalty for the affluent parents driving the kids to Dalton from the CPW apartment .

Also much of traffic congestion these days comes from ecommerce delivery ( Amazon, Fresh Direct), construction/development and general commercial vehicles. A recent Crain's article mentioned that some fast food places getting multiple deliveries every day. Incredible.

What about a surcharge on Amazon and Fresh Direct delivery? Surcharge on personal SUVs? Won't happen but would like to see.Instead of contributing to traffic, Able-bodied folks could actually walk to the store for food and diapers etc instead of getting delivery....

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